New Releases

They were never in time to book a gig at Toronto’s The Rivoli, then one day… They weren’t in their time at all. From Matt Johnson (BLACKBERRY) and Jay McCarrol’s cult comedy series comes an adventure 17 years in the making. NIRVANNA sets the flux capacitor for a gut-busting and time-skewing real good time.

In his unorthodox queer romance, Harry Lighton crafts a film about a sadomasochistic relationship that is both transgressive and disarming, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård in fearless performances as a mild young man and his leather-clad dom lover.

A winner of this year’s Cannes Competition Jury Prize, SIRÂT is at once a visceral and metaphysical excursion, in which a man desperately searches for his missing daughter amid a roving raver community in the harsh southern deserts of Morocco. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards®

Fun-loving Pasha works as a nonconformist teacher at the same primary school he attended as a child, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine transforms the school and community he loves from a place of education and self-expression to one of militarization and state ideology. Filmed secretly over two years, this Oscar-nominated documentary shows the impossible choices citizens face when the country they love is in the hands of a ruler who demands it become something they cannot accept.

Ethan Hawke delivers a charming, lived-in performance as lyricist Lorenz Hart, holding court at Sardi’s on the historic night of his former collaborator Richard Rodgers’ (Andrew Scott) greatest triumph: the premiere of Oklahoma!

Musical prodigy, admired and beloved by his many collaborators (not the least of which dubbed him “the fifth Beatle”), keyboardist and songwriter Billy Preston was also troubled, underrecognized and elusive — a closeted gay man raised in a Black church community that stridently condemned homosexuality (or pretended it didn’t exist). Electrifying footage and moving interviews bring the maestro front and center.

NATCHEZ captures an unsettling clash between history and memory in a small Mississippi town — a layered mosaic of people contending with the weight of the past in a place where it is always present. Equal parts amusing and disturbing, we journey through an antebellum tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history that is so thoroughly ingrained in its present, we’re left to wonder if it’s actually past at all.

Gael García Bernal stars as Ferdinand Magellan in this grand, decolonial retelling of the Portuguese explorer’s life and expeditions. A vast, globe-spanning epic from Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz conjures the sublime, suggesting each raindrop and each blade of grass carries a power infinitely greater than Magellan’s self-importance.

From the Oscar-winning director of NAVALNY, a father-to-be who tries to figure out what is happening with the AI insanity. Combining expert interviews, home videos and animations, the film meets this pressing AI discourse with curiosity and heart, clarifying complex ideas while acknowledging how much remains uncertain.

As both director and cinematographer, debut filmmaker Brittany Shyne immerses the viewer in the absorbing rhythms and intimate materiality of African-American farm life in Georgia. As government support for Black farmers dwindles, exquisite black-and-white imagery lovingly captures the rough-worn hands, faces and tools-of-trade of octogenarian patriarchs fighting to preserve their family legacies and century-old homesteads.

Keith Jarrett’s legendary performance in January 1975 nearly didn’t happen. KÖLN 75 dramatizes how the concert was conceived and orchestrated by the efforts of a teenage up-and-coming concert promoter (Mala Emde) and nearly stymied when the Bösendorfer Imperial Grand promised to the pianist (John Magaro) was nowhere to be found.

A happily engaged couple (Zendaya, Robert Pattinson) is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails. Co-starring Mamoudou Athie, Alana Haim, Hailey Gates and Zoë Winters. Directed by Kristoffer Borgli (DREAM SCENARIO, SICK OF MYSELF). Exclusive 35mm Engagement

A celebration of life filled with raw honesty, surreal bursts of imagination and brazen irreverence, ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT shows us what it really means to live happily, truthfully, and hilariously. In this Sundance award winning documentary, André Riccardi sets out to chronicle his final journey after receiving a diagnosis he could have prevented, through comedic vérité storytelling and fantastical stop-motion interludes.

Past and present collide in this sly psychodrama by German auteur Christian Petzold, as Laura (Paula Beer), a young woman from Berlin, survives a countryside car crash before she gradually enters the fold of a mysterious family. MIROIRS NO. 3 continues the filmmaker’s thematic exploration of trauma, memory, myth and identity in a tale that is simultaneously haunted and enchanted.

A happily engaged couple (Zendaya, Robert Pattinson) is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails. Co-starring Mamoudou Athie, Alana Haim, Hailey Gates, and Zoë Winters. Directed by Kristoffer Borgli (DREAM SCENARIO, SICK OF MYSELF).

Set during the height of Stalin’s Great Terror, the great Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s pitch-black absurdist tale concerns an idealistic government-appointed prosecutor who sets out to expose the mistreatment of a dissident Bolshevik writer who has been jailed and tortured without evidence of wrongdoing. Loznitsa constructs his story with a patient yet unmistakable sense of mounting dread, focusing on the devastating minutiae that allows fascism to function in our world.